ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pivot3®, Inc., a leading provider of unified storage and compute appliances, today introduced the vSTAC Watch to deliver more accessible, affordable and manageable IT functionality to video surveillance environments. The vSTAC Watch adds support for 64-bit operating systems such as Windows Server products, introduces VMware® Fault Tolerant and Pivot3 VM Failover™ options for high-availability, and standardizes hardware management on the Dell iDRAC™ management suite. List price for the 12 TB vSTAC Watch is 25% lower when compared to appliances used for general IT environments.
“Customer expectations on video quality and storage reliability are rising and therefore, stored video becomes a more critical asset. Pivot3 delivers new functionality to meet demanding performance and reliability needs but continues to make it cost effective for the user,” said Perry Levine, Senior Director of Business Development, Security Products, Siemens Industry Inc. “The new vSTAC Watch platform will also allow the virtualization of additional security subsystems that require the power of 64-bit Windows OS and VMware.”
The vSTAC Watch is an open system appliance that runs third-party video management software (VMS) and provides highly reliable storage for video capture and playback. Individual vSTAC Watch appliances can be stacked to create, protect and load-balance storage across vSTACs as a highly reliable IP SAN. High-performance solid-state storage introduces a 10X performance boost for the most intensive streaming environments. The vSTAC Watch supports the latest 64-bit operating systems and adds two new failover options. For local environments with limited staff and budget, Pivot3 VM Failover™ solution provides a self-healing restart for hosted VMS software within a vSTAC. Real-time failover is also supported for VMS partners that offer failover, for Microsoft clustered environments or for VMware solutions such as VMware HA. The vSTAC Watch is complementary to the industry-leading Pivot3 CloudBank and DataBank appliances.
“Video surveillance performance and availability requirements drive the next generation of IT solutions,” said Lee Caswell, Chief Strategy Officer, Pivot3. “The vSTAC Watch is our answer to the question of how to deliver a high feature set at a cost point that matches the pocketbook of the surveillance customer.”
The vSTAC Watch is part of the Pivot3 vSTAC product suite, which also includes appliances for virtual desktop environments and big data applications. The vSTAC OS is the core software technology that can be delivered on different hardware platforms to meet specific market needs. The unified approach to compute and storage results in savings in rack space, power and cooling of up to 40 percent when compared to traditional storage appliances.
About Pivot3
Pivot3 was founded in 2003 on the idea that today's stack of virtual servers, shared storage and networks could be radically simplified and unified through software innovation in order to drive down complexity and cost while dramatically increasing scale-out performance. Today, Pivot3 has over 500 customers across the globe deploying Pivot3 vSTAC™ unified storage and compute appliances. Pivot3 products are deployed in the data protection, digital video surveillance and rich media markets and have seen particular success in the public sector, transportation, education and retail vertical segments. The company has won numerous awards and was most recently selected by the Wall Street Journal for the prestigious "2011 Next Big Thing" category. To learn more about Pivot3, visit www.pivot3.com.